State by State Employment: Texas Ranked #1: The following database contains the latest nonfarm employment figures for all 50 states and the District of Columbia , as of December 2010. All figures are seasonally adjusted. Each state is listed with its latest job total, along with its changes during the past month and past year.

http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/datacenter/state-by-state-employment.html

US Unemployment Rate Falls to 9%:

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2011/02/04/us-unemployment-rate-falls-to-9.html?ed=2011-02-04&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pub

Home Affordability Returns to Pre-Bubble Levels:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703313304576132291585938656.html?mod=WSJ_RealEstate_LeftTopNews

Mineral Interest and How they Affect a Transaction:

https://www.abor.com/news_media/austin_realtor_print_archives/2011/JanFeb11.pdf#page=12

Real Estate Agents, Got a Rental?:

http://www.inman.com/buyers-sellers/columnists/stephenfishman/real-estate-agents-got-a-rental

Internal Revenue Code:Sec. 469. Passive activity losses and credits limited: http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Internal_Revenue_Code:Sec._469._Passive_activity_losses_and_credits_limited

Rates for 30-year home loan climb higher than 5 percent/Timing coincides with better job security, economic confidence:

http://www.statesman.com/business/real-estate/rates-for-30-year-home-loan-climb-higher-1246665.html

Cash Buyers Lifting Houses:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704570104576124502975117950.html?mod=WSJ_RealEstate_LeftTopNews

Is Seller Financing a Thing of the Past?:

https://www.abor.com/news_media/legal_archives/2010/Apr10.pdf

Long Road to Housing Reform:

http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/capital/2011/02/11/replacing-fannie-mae-freddie-mac-could-take-five-years-or-more?ana=e_pft#

FICOs and FHA: Two Big Lenders Loosen Up:

http://www.inman.com/buyers-sellers/columnists/kenharney/ficos-and-fha-2-big-lenders-loosen

Six Steps to Boost Your Credit Rating:

http://www.inman.com/buyers-sellers/columnists/tara-nicholle-nelson/6-steps-boost-your-credit-rating

Home Owners Choose Shorter Mortgages:

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2011/02/15/homeowners-choose-shorter-mortgages.html?ed=2011-02-15&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pub

Texas Foreclosures Jump 22% in January:

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2011/02/14/austin-area-foreclosures-rise-6-in-q1.html?ed=2011-02-14&s=article_du&ana=e_du_pub

A Changed Market Short Sales & REOs:

http://www.inman.com/products/downloads/a-changed-market-short-sales-and-reos

Buying A Home After Foreclosure or Short Sale | Wait Time To Buy Again After Short Sale:

http://timandjulieharris.com/2011/02/01/buying-a-home-after-foreclosure-or-short-sale-wait-time-to-buy-again-after-short-sale/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TimAndJulieHarris+%28Harris+Real+Estate+University+%7C+Daily+Coaching+%7C+What+are+you+here+to+give%3F%29

BEXAR COUNTY FORECLOSURE POSTINGS UP

ADDISON (Foreclosure Listing Service) – Quarterly foreclosure posting activity in Bexar County topped 4,300 for the fifth time in this foreclosure cycle, according to the latest report from Foreclosure Listing Service.

“From January through the upcoming foreclosure auction on March 1, 4,330 postings have been filed threatening properties in Bexar County with foreclosure," said FLS President George Roddy Sr. in the report.

That's about even with first quarter 2010, which had 4,346 postings, but it's up 1 percent from fourth quarter 2010, which had 4,268 postings.

Foreclosure posting activity in first quarter 2011 in Bexar County was 105 percent higher than it was eight years ago when FLS began tracking foreclosure activity there.

Here's how other areas tracked by FLS compared:

CANYONS ON LAKE TRAVIS UNDERWAY:

AUSTIN (Austin Business Journal) – Partners in Building LP has acquired 121 acres near Lakeway that will be developed into a new residential project.

The gated community, dubbed the Canyons on Lake Travis , is expected to contain 57 homes, each on about one acre. The acreage was purchased at auction in November through Norwood Homes Inc.

Homes will be built to suit starting in the high $400,000s. Efforts are currently underway on landscaping, front gate features and common areas.

	Total Postings 1st Quarter 2011	% Change from 1st Quarter 2010	% Change from Previous Quarter
Austin metro	4,186	up 6%	up 5%
Travis County	2,245	up 7%	up 3%
Williamson County	1,310	up 4%	up 4%
Hays County	437	up 6%	up 22%
Bastrop County	194	down 2%	down 1%
McLennan County	367	up 18%	down 7%
Bell County	592	up 7%	up 5%
Bexar County	4,330	no change	up 1%
Comal County	296	up 2%	down 3%
Guadalupe County	258	down 8%	up 2%